“What do you think it means that I came here myself, calling it a casual meeting?”
“Um, that is…”
When the prince didn’t lift his head to speak, he had no choice but to continue his sentence in that position.
“Did you think I came here to ask you for something?”
The Chief Justice couldn’t say anything. In Landhill and Lusonia, there was only one court overseeing the two territories. That meant he, a resident of Lusonia, was now a subject of the lord before him.
“The prince does not make requests of anyone. Commands, perhaps.”
“I apologize.”
“It’s fine. Ignorance can’t be blamed. Sit down.”
As he sat, a maid who had been standing hesitantly around them brought them tea. The hand of the maid who was placing down the teacup was trembling.
“I came simply because I’m curious. I heard you say that if I wanted to satisfy my curiosity, I should involve this woman as well… I heard you quite well, so there’s plenty of room for you to misunderstand.”
Carson slightly turned his head to look at his aide. Then Noah approached them, holding a thick file.
Upon arriving in the territory from the imperial city, Carson first went to her house. His instincts sharply responded to the discomfort he felt upon arriving at Ines’s residence.
When the ceasefire was declared, Carson had directly met with the Chief Justice and heard the impending verdict.
Noah couldn’t forget the face of his master at that moment. Exiting the Chief Justice’s chamber, he pulled out a well-preserved piece of paper from deep within his heart and completely crumpled it in his hand.
It was a marriage license stamped with the emperor’s seal. With his eyes tightly closed and his lower lip bitten, he rubbed his face with his dry hand.
And he didn’t return to the courtroom.
So Noah thought Carson had given up on Ines. It seemed reasonable. The crime she had committed was terrible, even just by hearing about it.
Boarding the carriage, Carson buried his face in both hands and could not lift his head.
The weight of the emotions he felt because of a woman he had slight fondness and great curiosity for wasn’t it at all.
Carson took a deep breath and moved the hands that were covering his face, brushing them up through his hair.
And the eyes that met were completely different. He returned to his residence via that path and soon dispatched someone to the closest temple library in the territory.
“This is a precedent of those who were pardoned by the immunity privilege gained for saving the royal family.”
Including Noah in that list was natural. Finding such a precedent wasn’t easy. Originally, not many people wanted immunity privileges for saving the royal family.
But it wasn’t completely nonexistent. Most of them had committed crimes that were almost akin to national treason.
The Chief Justice quickly began to review the precedent. There wasn’t much content, so it didn’t take too long.
“How do you feel, Chief Justice? I felt quite bad looking at it…”
The Chief Justice merely shook his pupils and moistened his dry lips, unable to say much.
“In the past few decades, has the position of the royal family in the Keinz Empire declined this much?”
“I didn’t mean to make a judgment in that direction.”
“Sure, you didn’t. But I felt quite bad. Because of the judgment you rendered without meaning to.”
“…”
“Even rebels and their sons survive, but you treat an attempted murder like this?”
Carson’s shout made the Chief Justice lower his head again. However, he didn’t completely back down.
“Of course, you may think that. But the nature of the crime Ines Swalden committed is particularly bad. She premeditated the crime and…”
“Because it’s a crime a woman committed against a man?”
“Excuse me?”
The rebels had orchestrated their treason in advance and committed crimes. They didn’t merely attempt to kill people; they took hundreds of lives. Is this man’s criminal nature worse than that of this woman?
“……”
She neither tried to steal the throne for her own desires nor could she handle the emotional pain of betrayal from her lover. Can one still say that her sin is worse?
The Chief Justice bit his lip.
The territory had been buzzing lately due to the interest in this woman. He had planned to use this opportunity to showcase the stern authority of the judiciary.
Didn’t he secretly want to reprimand the woman even more for daring to try to kill a man?
As a judge, he knew better than anyone that the laws of the Kainz Empire were much harsher on women than men.
“That is not the case.”
Feeling cornered, he, as a person of law, immediately admitted his mistake.
“I have heard that you cannot hold another trial with the Emperor’s immunity.”
Once immunity had been invoked, appeals were not allowed. That was the extent of the privilege’s value—it transcended the legal limits.
“Yes.”
“Did you produce these results by disregarding the imperial family of the Kainz Empire? Is this my excessive punishment?”
“That is absolutely not the case.”
Carson stood up from his seat. Ines also stood behind him.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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